Best value off the peg mountain bike?

Just been having a quick look on the interweb at new full builds, and there just seems to be a lot of very expensive bikes with average kit on them.
The only exception being yt industry's wicked.
So what else is out there worth a look for good value?
Any wheelsize, any price, as long as it will ride up, across, and downhills, and its good value for money.

It doesn't matter how good the spec looks, if you buy a bike, hate it and try to shift it on then it's going to be costly (i.e. bad VFM). Conversely, pretty much any bike will be good VFM if you love it and ride it for years.

I want SRAM gripshift which means at least a shifter change and probably some mechs. Brakes all seem to be elixir on cheaper bikes which go on day 1 and generally bars are too narrow. So not much that is good value unless you can eBay take off parts well.

As mentioned above a bike you'll ride is "best". I had a Canyon with XT/XO/etc and sold it on after a short while. My similarly priced but deore equipped and acronym free Fargo has taken me all over the shop. Don't buy something just because it has fancier parts.